[mythtv-users] lirc and Xine

[Malcolm]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DanM" <dan at milkcarton.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:44 PM
>
>
> > do you have something like
> > begin
> >   prog = xine
> >   button = Play
> >   config = Play
> > end
> >
> > in your .lircrc file?
> >
> > -dan

>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "malcolm" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:48 PM
>
> Dan, I have that type of .lircrc file in ~ but I noticed while watching
> /var/log/lircd that Xine is not even connecting to the lircd daemon.  When
I
> fire up Myth or mplayer I see a "client connected" in /var/log/lircd.  I'm
> using the default xine that came with Mandrake 10.0.  Is there a command
> line option to tell Xine to use lirc?
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm

OK I got Myth's native lirc support working and I got lirc working with
mplayer like this:
mplayer -lircconf ~/.mythtv/lirc-mplayer (used google to figure out contents
of lirc-mplayer)

Xine however is not even connecting to lircd.  I can check /var/log/lircd
and check that.  I finally decided perhaps my xine that comes with Mandrake
10.0 might not be compiled with lirc support.  So I downloaded xine-lib and
xine-gui source and compiled my own.  While compling xine-gui I got this
while running ./configure

checking for lirc_init in -llirc_client... yes
checking lirc/lirc_client.h usability... yes
checking lirc/lirc_client.h presence... yes
checking for lirc/lirc_client.h... yes
checking for "/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
checking for "/usr/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
checking for "/usr/local/lib/liblirc_client.a"... yes

Now that leads me to believe xine has found all the lirc libraries and will
compile with lirc support right?
"./configure --help" only shows an option to disable compiling lirc support.
Nothing to enable it.
Yet even after compiling my own xine-lib and xine-gui it still does not even
connect to the lircd and I see no traces of it in the logs (/var/log/lircd).

I also saw on the web that if you get errors about lirc when starting up
Xine that you can use -L to disable support for it.  So I shutdown lircd and
rmmod lirc_i2c and lirc_dev.  Now I have NO lirc stuff running.  I fire up
Xine and no errors or complaints about lirc not been there.

I'm at a loss here.  What's the trick to xine and lirc?

Thanks
Malcolm